by Julia Shapero and Michael Korsh | May 1, 2022 | Health, Urban Indian Healthcare
Health-care organizations that support Native Americans living in urban areas receive minimal federal funding, even though more than 70 percent of the U.S. Native population lives in metropolitan areas. The 41 Indian health organizations serving them, which the...
by Catherine Buchaniec and Julia Shapero | Apr 30, 2022 | Politics, Urban Indian Healthcare
Laz Carreon was on parental leave helping care for his newborn daughter when a mysterious respiratory illness first appeared in Wuhan, China. As the illness spread through China, it caught his attention. An experienced registered nurse and former National Guard...
by Jeannie Kopstein and Annie Klingenberg | Apr 26, 2022 | Urban Indian Healthcare
According to Native medical students, there are immense financial and systematic barriers in the way of native students pursuing careers in the medical field. Groups like the American Indian Center of Chicago and the Association of Native Medical Students are...
by Quinn Clark | Apr 20, 2022 | Urban Indian Healthcare
MINNEAPOLIS — Thadd Hall, a two-spirit citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, still remembers a book that their father kept in the house when they were growing up – “Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians” by Washington...
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by Isabel Miller and Cristobella Durrette | Apr 19, 2022 | Featured, Urban Indian Healthcare
MILWAUKEE — Duane “Dodge” Waubanascum, once an amateur boxer from the Oneida Nation who won two Golden Glove titles in the 1970s, stands in the back of a room watching a group of fellow Native American Elders participate in a boxing class. “If you...
by Andrew Marquardt and Hannah Schoenbaum | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Health, Urban Indian Healthcare
CHICAGO – Sarina DiMaso, a citizen of the Chiricahua Apache and Taino Nations, stumbled into her Chicago home seven years ago after a drug and alcohol binge to find her 24-year-old daughter, Nicole, dead by suicide in DiMaso’s bedroom. Riddled with guilt and trapped...
